Learning Aloud

Cindy presently facilitates the implementation of a grant focused on providing immersive educational experiences using a GeoDome. To imagine the structure of a geodome think in terms of the blow-up, large size, outdoor structures you sometimes see temporarily set up in parks during the summer to provide fun for kids repurposed as a mobile planetarium [...]

The more recent Learning and Leading has an article authored by Judi Harris and colleagues. There are certain writers who have promoted core ideas that appeal to me and Harris is one. She has a concept – activity types – that makes sense to me as an important idea in professional development. Rather than promoting [...]

The recent release of a “best practices” guide to copyright and fair use has generated the typical echo effect among educational bloggers. It is pretty obvious from my previous comments that there is something about more and more liberal interpretation of “fair use” that annoys me. The exact source of this annoyance is difficult to [...]

An interview with Clay Shirky, author of “Here comes everybody”, is available from Will Richardson (Weblogg-ed). Shirky, a college prof, has some interesting things to say about the future of education – structured and personal learning. There are some interesting comments about the mismatch between what we want schools to do and what we presently [...]